大女儿今年高中毕业升入大学。在加拿大上大学，无需“千军万马过独木桥”地经历高考的洗礼，但是，为了上大学，孩子们并不轻松。
早在就读八年级时，因为面临小学毕业升高中，学校老师在一开学就通知家长和学生要开始为升入高中做准备，学校安排参观本地高中校园，介绍高中教学与小学教学的异同，还特别提醒大家，要尽早选定将来报读的大学和专业，以便安排好高中阶段所选学的相应课程。从此，家长和学生便开始时刻关注并准备升大学这件人生大事。
在安省，4年高中，需要完成30个学分，其中包括18门必修课和12门选修课，还要完成40个小时的义工工作，并通过10年级英语读写测验，方可达到高中毕业要求。
报读大学时，需要6门12年级课程的平均分数，其中英语成绩是各个专业都需要的，其它5门课程则根据所报读专业不同而有不同要求，除此之外，就是选择分数最高的科目成绩。学科成绩的分数并不是以一两次考试成绩得出的，学生平时的学习表现，比如大小测验、作业、专题研习、以及课堂参与程度等等，占很大比例。所以，学生一时一刻都不能放松自己的学习。而要了解不同大学不同专业的入学要求，除了上网查看，还有每年9月下旬在多伦多会议中心的Ontario Universities’ Fair，学生家长可以前去面对面地与多间大学的招生老师和学生代表交谈，了解专业设置、课余活动和校园生活等等。
大女儿11年级和12年级时，我们都去了这个资讯展。也还和她一起亲自去过几所大学参观，事先在网上预订时间，届时有专门老师和学生带领并讲解。这样的参观，还让我们得知各个学校对6门平均分数在85或者90分以上的学生授予1000-2000元不等的奖学金。而且，入学以后，如果每年学习成绩都达到一定分数，仍然享受相应的奖学金。这让孩子们十分惊讶：原来好分数不仅能让我们上大学，还能挣钱！尤其对当时正在上7年级的小女儿是个极大激励，姑且算是意外收获吧！此外，安省有个Ontario Student Assistance Program（简称OSAP），学生需自行上网注册，然后，根据家庭收入申请减免30%学费或无息贷款。
大女儿因喜好音乐，最初想报读音乐教育专业。查看几所大学的入学要求，除了英语成绩以外，还要求乐器达到皇家音乐学院（RCM）的第8或者第9第10级，而她早已超过这个标准，9年级时即通过最高级表演级并获取毕业证书，当时正在学的小提琴也已经通过第10级开始了表演级的学习，再加上她多年参与乐队、合唱团，还在小学校做过半年音乐老师实习和夏令营音乐老师助理工作。所以，每个学期选课时，她都不必为自己将来报读大学专业而特别选学什么科目，而是凭自己兴趣而定。
学教育做老师是个很不错的选择，也是尊重孩子的兴趣爱好。但是，我个人总是希望她还能在音乐之外的学科有更广泛的了解和深入的学习。因为她的记忆力很好，她曾采纳我的建议，选学过一学期的法律课，结果，她兴趣不大，学了一个学期就不再选这门课了。她的数学一直不错，我们提醒她将来无论做什么工作，学好数学都会能帮助一个人成为做事清晰有条理的人。所以，她在高中的4年里，我们建议她每年都选学数学，甚至还利用11年级暑假把12年级安排不下的一门数学课学完。
12年级那年的11月中旬，每个报读大学的学生从学校那里得到各自的网上申请大学的密码。12月初，大女儿在网上申报了4所大学的一共7个专业，前面3个专业不用付费，从第4个开始，每报一个专业都需要付费60元。除了报她一直中意的音乐教育，还在我们的引导下报了计算机专业，希望学些目前信息时代各行各业都需要的技术。这样，将来无论做什么都会得心应手。而选择12月初申请，是考虑到通常学校在收到申请后，约用两周时间考察学习成绩等等，然后回复申请人，问一些相关的问题，希望对申请人了解更多。
这时，除了学习成绩之外，学生所参加的各项活动，特别是能力的培养，就显出其重要性了。因为在相同学习分数的情况下，一个以百分之百的时间和精力学习的人，和拿出一部分时间和精力，服务他人奉献社会和锻炼自己各方面能力的人是不同的。显而易见，后者把自己所学技能服务社会，也更具备组织工作能力，而更容易被大学录取。这样的全面介绍自己的写作，对于正在读高中12年级的学生来说，放在圣诞假期里做比较更有时间和精力，因为此时没有学校课业和其它活动。
1月份，新年过后不久，除了滑铁卢大学的计算机专业外，其它包括多伦多大学的计算机专业6个的专业都陆续来了录取通知，音乐教育专业也通知去面试乐器。大女儿一边等着滑铁卢大学的消息，一边考虑着自己到底是选读音乐教育还是计算机专业。她在我们的开导下，很快就想清楚：还是选择一门以前自己没接触过的学科，来丰富自己的人生。
从毕业后的就业角度考虑，滑铁卢的计算机专业有Co-Op课程，众所周知，这无疑会为学生毕业后的工作打下很好基础。大学专业的确定最后截止日期是6月2日。一直到5月中旬，滑铁卢大学来了通知，但是，录取的专业不是她所报的计算机专业，而是环境系的Geomatics专业，信中说明今年报读滑铁卢大学计算机专业的学生多达3400多人，而这个Geomatics专业是目前发展较快的一个比较新的一个学科，并不为很多人所熟知。
这是一门什么专业呢？上网查看得知：中文直译为“测绘，也被称为地理空间技术和地理信息工程，或地球数学工程。”再查看英文关于这个专业和所从事的的工作解释：主要学习数学、地理和电脑知识，将来的工作主要有城市规划、卫星导航定位、天气预报、以及能源资源分布分配等等。
滑铁卢大学的网站上还有一段一位这个专业的女学生的视频，她在入读大学时，也是从她所报的专业转到这个专业来的，几年读下来，逐渐喜欢了这个学科。尤其是实习（Co-Op），让她有机会实际接触这个专业所从事的工作。我们在多大和滑铁卢之间反复对比权衡，大女儿最终决定接受滑铁卢的录取，认为这个专业要比单纯的计算机专业更实际更实用。
除此之外，学校的邮件和通过网络的线上直播，给学生详细讲解说明新生如何报到注册以及每个学期的选课，还有大学具体的学习和生活等等。突然有一天接到来自滑铁卢大学环境系的一份信，全面考察过新生的学习和社会活动之后，决定授予两位同学每人一笔奖学金，大女儿就是其中之一。加上之前学校授予的90分以上的奖学金，让我们再一次体会到“好分数不仅可以当钱使，而且，自己的任何努力都会有回报的。”
写这篇文章的时候，大学已经开学一个多月了，大女儿很快就适应了新的学习和生活，这当然得益于过去几年在家时的熏陶。她对所学课程也是充满信心，并在几次测验中取得满意的成绩。滑铁卢大学距离我家开车将近两个小时，比多伦多大学的半个多小时车程远了很多。不少人为此疑惑：为什么不选多大而去那么远？
但是，从我们的经历来说，从孩子的成长来看，大学是人生的一个新的里程碑，这期间离开家一段时间，自己去安排学习和生活，可以更好地锻炼独立生活的能力，孩子有了自己成长的空间，也就增加了自己的责任感和信心，这是十分必要的。
大女儿最终选择就读的专业虽不是她喜爱和擅长的音乐，但她积极报考并顺利进入了学校的乐队，每周都有排练，也在老校友返校与新生聚会时登台演奏，把音乐作为自己课余生活的一部分，并继续用自己学到的知识和技能服务他人奉献社会。
虽然在加拿大上大学和中国上大学在形式上不尽相同，但是，整个准备过程都是对自己能力的锻炼，同时也要具备相当的知识水平。（多伦多加华月子中心为您转载）
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</a> EBay Inc reported solid second-quarter results on Wednesday but Chief Executive John Donahoe warned of "headwinds" in the second half of the year, sending shares of the e-commerce company down more than 5 percent in after-hours action.
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</a> David Neal Shepard, 52, was sentenced during a brief hearing in Lubbock, where the slaying happened. He pleaded guilty last month to capital murder in the July 2012 fatal shooting of Dr. Joseph Sonnier III. As part of his plea deal, prosecutors agreed to not seek the death penalty.
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</a> The United States blames Assad’s military for an Aug. 21 poison gas attack in Damascus suburbs that it says killed more than 1,400 people. Syria maintains the attack was a "provocation" by rebels intended to persuade the international community to intervene in the 2-1/2-year-old war.
</a> Examining Magistrate Luis Alaez formally charged Garzon with "79 counts of homicide and numerous offences of bodily harm, all of them committed through professional recklessness," the court said in a statement.
</a> The researchers also observe that Dropbox's two-factor authentication, used for accessing its Website, is not supported in the client software. âThis implies that it is sufï¬cient to have only the host_id value to gain access to the targetâs data stored in Dropbox.â
</a> By the way, the KGB agent Quislings that controlled the Russian Orthodox Church before the âcollapseâ of the USSR are to this day still in control! They were never identified and thrown out of that institution after the âcollapseâ of the USSR! The same is true for the other 14 republics of the USSR, including East Bloc nations. That means Soviet era KGB agent Quislings are still holding the Holy Eucharist and hearing confessions! Now you have proof that the “collapse” of the USSR in December 1991 was a disinformation operation, and you also know how the Vatican can still be controlled by the Kremlin.
</a> A sharp drop in Apple's China revenue in the second quarter underscores the challenges it faces as cheaper local rivals close the technology gap, threatening demand in the company's second-largest market.
</a> I n the matter of the (Washington) Redskins. I donât like being lectured by sportscasters about ethnic sensitivity. Or advised by the President of the United States about changing team names. Or blackmailed by tribal leaders playing the race card.
</a> Both Fingerprint Cards, which develops and makes fingerprint scanners used to access computers and mobile phones, and South Korea's Samsung said the press release was a fake and denied they had been in talks.
</a> Rose Will Monroe was one of the 40,000 who toiled at the 332-acre Ford Motor Co. facility that churned out nearly 9,000 B-24 Liberator bombers during the war. Monroe, who moved from to Michigan from her native Kentucky during the war, starred as herself in the film, and the Rosie character became one of the best-known figures of the era as well as an enduring symbol of female empowerment.
</a> When the researchers tested the coated material they found that it had chemically stabilized the silicon surface. When they used it to make supercapacitors, they found that the graphene coating improved energy densities by over two orders of magnitude compared to those made from uncoated porous silicon and significantly better than commercial supercapacitors.
</a> That is totally not true, Iv’e worked on and have several publications on pre-Cambrian aged (2.5 billion y.a ) rocks and CO2 levels were much higher then and there are 60,000 feet of carbonate deposits in the rocky mtns to prove it. What is your back ground?
</a> Morgan was a student at Virginia Tech in 2007 when Cho went on the deadliest shooting by a lone gunman in U.S. history. Cho, a senior at the school, killed himself following the April massacre. He was a high school student when his mom was working at the Pentagon on 9/11.
</a> "The vast majority of states have pursued reforms lowering benefits for future hires, which are much easier to enact, although the beneficial impact of such reforms will only manifest itself in pension metrics over decades," it added.
</a> Along the way, the Zetas authored some of the worst atrocities of Mexico's drug war, leaving hundreds of bodies beheaded on roadsides or hanging from bridges, earning a reputation as perhaps the most terrifying of the country's numerous ruthless cartels.
</a> This week Ms Taittinger, 51, will officially open her own winery in Sillery, just six miles from Taittinger’s cellars in Reims, the result of five years of preparation. The building, which she describes as being “not a glamour place, but a very modern technical centre”, will process the grapes and store the bottled product, all in her own cellars. Previously she had to rely on other winemakers to produce on her behalf.
</a> "People won't leave. They will be there with their children, their girls, sisters, mothers, fathers. All families are there," Mohammed Attiya, an English teacher who splits his time between work and a sit-in outside Rabaa Al-Adawiya mosque, said Sunday evening. "Even if they know they will die, they insist to be there."
</a> In Piniellaâs opinion, the new system will definitely put more pressure on managers insofar as when to challenge, how much time they have to challenge and how to differentiate from running out onto the field to protect their player from being thrown out of a game for protesting a call on the bases and actually arguing with the umpire, which is prohibited under the guidelines.
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</a> Borgata, one of the 12 hotel-casinos in New Jersey'sAtlantic City, said it had worked closely with the divisionthroughout the process. A spokeswoman for the division confirmedit was the first Internet gaming permit to be issued by thestate.
</a> "I see a risk in the overall public debt because the next government will take over when the public debt will be around 48 percent of GDP, only 12 percentage points short of the maximum set by the Maastricht Treaty."
</a> The disenchanted give multiple reasons, citing previousmisleading statements about domestic surveillance, thegovernment's efforts to force companies to decrypt usercommunications, and the harm to U.S. businesses overseas.
</a> From the hard facts category, it’s also been announced that a further 100,000 lapsed players have also reactivated their account since the relaunch. Along with the engine upgrades, the browser MMO’s third version also began the “Battle of Lumbridge” event, which aimed to give players some control over the fate of the world. “With the Battle of Lumbridge we were looking to give the players a new way to interact with RuneScape and place their mark on the world,” said RuneScape executive producer Phil Mansell.
</a> Parcels from the likes of Amazon and Marks and Spencer delivered through Royal Mail's universal service and itsexpress arm Parcelforce make up almost half of the group's 9.15billion pounds of revenue.
</a> The Duke of Cambridge’s polo plans have fueled speculation that the baby won’t arrive until next week, but that hasn’t stopped people from placing their bets on the baby’s birth date and name at William Hill, a prominent British betting establishment.
</a> Hasan, who attends court in a wheelchair, is acting as his own lawyer, though he has rarely cross-examined witnesses or mounted objections. On Friday, he rested his head in his right hand and rubbed his temple, appearing pale and wan in his camouflage military uniform with an American flag patch affixed to his shoulder.
</a> For cable companies such as Comcast Corp and Time Warner Cable Inc, home security is another revenue stream to rebuild margins whittled away by rising programming costs and declining video subscriber numbers. It is also a way to put to work the billions of dollars that cable companies have invested to create high-speed video and data services over the years.
</a> Used in cold juices, it is refreshing, spicy and peppery. Dried and powdered, ginger loses some of its qualities but it is used in many preparations. It also marries sweet and salty well, and has anti-inflammatory benefits.
</a> He remains unpredictable in the roles he chooses, and – with the possible exception of the thrillers Salt and 2012 – out of the mainstream. He is currently working on the screenplay for a film adaptation of a memoir by William Kamkwamba, a man from an impoverished farming family in Malawi who, aged 14, provided his family with electricity by building his own windmill from instructions he found in a library book. This Ejiofor will direct, but not perform in.
</a> When you hear someone say “al quaeda linked militants” it means they are not al quaeda. There is no al quaeda. These people are an independent group who want to make an Islamic state over there. Think of them as an armed political group. But there is no alqaeda. Al quaeda is a made up group.
</a> Speculation that the Nets might sign Andrei Kirilenko â despite being able to offer only a three-year, $10 million deal âwas untrue, according to a source. Kirilenko just opted out of a one-year, $10 million contract to become a free agent. Thereâs not much left out there for the Nets, which might be why King was discussing it on Wednesday.
</a> âI ran out of gas,â Wright said. âThe thing Iâll take away from this is just the atmosphere, the crowd, the ovation I got. That was really, really, really cool. That just gets me even more excited about (the All-Star Game) tomorrow. It even gets me more excited about when we become that playoff contender. ... Itâs exceeded my expectations so far. Itâs been a lot of fun.â
</a> That means getting over the hump of a record six second-place finishes at a U.S. Open the way he finally conquered his sketchy history with links golf. But we know this. At 43, Mickelson is playing the best golf of his career. At 37, Woods is not, at least when it comes to the big events.
</a> In the past, Republicans have insisted on spending cuts asthe price for budget deals or lifting of the government debtlimit. Their current stand is aimed at derailing Obamacare,which will expand insurance to millions without coverage.
</a> Biden arrived in Mexico late Thursday night and is due to meet with President Enrique Peña Nieto, and kick off the U.S.-Mexico High Level Economic Dialogue (HLED). There were plenty of reasons for the vice president to stay home — including the brewing budget battle, and the shootings in Washington’s Navy Yard — in addition to Syria. So it is worth asking why he didn’t.
</a> Ultimately nervous climate change observers hope debates about sensitivity and short-term warming trends do not distract from the main points of the report or will be used by some governments to reduce their ambition to cut emissions.
</a> “Nobody’s perfect,” Lohan added. “I love my parents. And I’m not going to say that certain situation, I would have preferred to have been handled differently. Certain things I would have preferred to have been kept within my family, in private. But that’s in the past.”
</a> If he were a Republican, the Dems would be screaming for his head. But because he is a Democrat and closely associated with the unimpeachable Barack Obama, he escapes the moral and ethical outrage that should rightly fall upon him. Thanks Felix for keeping this story alive. Let’s hope justice is served.
</a> The pay cuts by the owners came only weeks after a turbulent bus strike that left parents of more than 100,000 public school children â many of them with special needs â scrambling for a month to get their kids to class.
</a> Bacteria in the human body often thrive within structured 3D communities that contain multiple bacterial species. Recent studies have found that relationships between structure and function in these microbial ecosystems can affect human health, such as the virulence of infections in chronic wounds.
</a> They told a sentencing hearing the brutality of the crime had shocked the "collective conscience". The judge, who also heard arguments from the defence, will announce the sentences on Friday.
</a> "While it is a deeply personal and private event, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge realise this is a time of national celebration and that there will be vast interest in the baby," a spokesman told the publication back in June, adding: "They realise many people will want to share in their happiness."
</a> Asda, a subsidiary of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT), saw its market share fall to 17.3%, from 17.6%, according to Kantar, which monitors the household grocery purchasing habits of 25,000 demographically representative households in the U.K.
</a> For starters, it looks set to be the Sebastian Vettel of tablet typing. It's thinner and lighter than its predecessor â a sliver at 2.75mm and weighing just 185g â and now boasts 1092 touch sensors inside compared to the original Touch Cover's 80 (one under each key). And that means the Touch Cover 2 is cleverer than you. When you rest your hands on the pressure sensitive keyboard between words or your finger bounces off a key after you press it, Microsoft's new genius keyboard knows that you're not pressing hard or long enough to strike a key. Microsoft say the tactile feedback in our fingers isn't fast enough to tell we're even grazing a key but the Touch Cover 2 knows.
</a> USAA strives to do the right thing for its members, especially following major catastrophes like Hurricane Sandy. We processed more than 4,000 total loss vehicles in the aftermath of Sandy with the goal of expedient claims resolutions for our members. In this particular case, the title was lost after the member sent it. Rather than go back to the member and request a duplicate title during that difficult time, we opted to proceed with a parts-only sale. Consistent with our process, we notified the Insurance Services Office that the vehicle was a total loss.
</a> Asked by PBS’ Gwen Ifill whether he had any conversations with Putin about a plan to allow Syria to put its chemical weapons under international control, Obama said, “I did have those conversations. And this is a continuation of conversations I’ve had with President Putin for quite some time.”
</a> Severe early morning frosts on July 24 and 25 in three of Brazil's top sugar-cane states devastated large areas, Datagro President Plinio Nastari told Reuters. The cold blight comes at the peak the crushing season when more than half of Brazil's expected record 590-million-tonne crop remains unharvested.
</a> Despite lackluster sales, HTC devices usually receive rave reviews, and it has in recent months expanded its range to include smaller and larger models of the One phone and hinted at further products, including a tablet and a wearable device.
</a> U.S. shares surged to record highs on Wednesday, the lastday of the reporting period, after the Fed said it wouldmaintain the pace of its $85 billion in monthly bond purchasesand await more evidence of solid economic growth.
</a> "My role now is to act as a pressure group by observing the political transition and be ready to interfere if things go in the wrong direction," said Badr, who cut his political teeth in the 2011 uprising.
</a> Instead, stress should be put on the "importance of making gradual, long-term changes to their eating habits and physical activity and how much weight they might realistically expect to lose in total and on a weekly basis if they adhere to the programme".
</a> "MoveOn members, like the majority of Americans, oppose military intervention in Syria and want Congress to reject the Authorization for Use of Military Force resolution," said Anna Galland, executive director of MoveOn.org Civic Action, in an email to reporters. "Following MoveOn members' overwhelming 73 percent vote to oppose the war, we are launching a major effort calling on Congress to vote 'no' on the president's request" for authorization to use force.
</a> On the other side of the political divide, millions ofEgyptians were happy to see the back of a leader they believedwas orchestrating a creeping Islamist takeover of the state - acharge the Brotherhood has vehemently denied.
</a> NHTSA gave the Model S its top five-star rating for each safety category -- front-end crash, side crash and rollover crash. NHTSA had not previously tested the Model S, which came out last year, or Tesla's other model, the Tesla Roadster.
</a> Lanza used one. James Holmes used one in Aurora, Colo. Aaron Alexis was found dead with one on Monday. Sometimes tactical use can mean movie theaters, elementary schools and, it appears, the famous Washington Naval Yard.
</a> The recently approved Shanghai FTZ is slated to be a testbed for convertibility of China's yuan currency and furtherliberalisation of interest rates, as well as reforms of foreigndirect investment and taxation, the State Council, or cabinet,has said. The zone will be formally launched on Sept. 29, theSecurities Times reported earlier this month.
</a> “Stocks in the aerospace and defence sectors obtain a large proportion of their revenues overseas, particularly in the US, despite being listed on the UK stock market,” he said. “BAE Systems, for instance, derives 40pc of its turnover in the US. Among smaller stocks, specialist defence firm Ultra Electronics has also done well out of the currency moves, given that almost half its turnover is generated in the US.”
</a> And then Obama and the Democrats are faced with blocking the funding of the vast majority of the government - and individual Democratic Senators up for reelection next year will be accused of shutting down popular programs like Veterans Affairs, National Parks, Welfare, etc. just to force acceptance of the unpopular Obamacare program.
</a> The Dow Jones industrial average was down 85.16points, or 0.56 percent, at 15,243.14. The Standard & Poor's 500Index was down 8.58 points, or 0.51 percent, at 1,690.09.The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 9.48 points, or 0.25percent, at 3,777.95.
</a> Mayweather's speed was the difference all night as he was able to land straight rights and left jabs, then get out of the way before Alvarez was able to respond. But while Mayweather used great defense, he wasn't afraid to attack often and at different angles, finding Alvarez with punches he couldn't anticipate.
</a> Piraeus has done all the preparation for a bond issue andwill borrow "opportunistically" when pricing becomes attractive,said Anthimos Thomopoulos, the bank's deputy chief executive.The bank "can launch at any time", he added.
</a> Mr Moscovici said yesterday that France’s 2013 public deficit would now come in at 4.1pc percent of GDP - higher than the 3.9pc agreed with the European Union. He said that France was on track to post a deficit of 3.6pc in 2014, and push it back under the EU ceiling of 3pc of GDP in 2015, in line with a two-year extension granted by Brussels in May.
</a> "You always try to be good but then you are trying to get your average game level as high as you can," he said, "that the gap between a good game and a bad game wouldn't be so big. I think I managed to do that this year, and it motivates me for the next year to keep that level and keep getting better."
</a> Shares of Citigroup shot up 1.9 percent to $51.80after the third-largest U.S. bank by assets reported a 26percent increase in adjusted quarterly profit. The S&P 500financial industry sector index was up 0.4 percent.
</a> Extended closures have consequences for U.S. diplomacy. It means would-be tourists and those traveling on business have to wait for visas, pickpocketed Americans can't get new passports and fewer personnel are at work promoting human rights, facilitating trade deals or coordinating with foreign governments on issues vital to U.S. security and economic growth. It also takes a toll on the U.S. image in countries with anti-American sentiment already.
</a> "I find it difficult to envision any significant number ofour developmental initiatives that won't be affected," McHughtold reporters at the annual Association of the U.S. Armyconference. "And some we'll have to cancel."
</a> And even then Assad might not be fully disarmed: "Guarantees are hard to come by," Friedman said, noting that toxic munitions were found in Libya after Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown in 2011 - eight years after he was supposed to have given them all up.
</a> However, John Vine said that "not one person has been stopped from getting on a plane and arriving in this country". Those deported include dangerous criminals, child abusers and war criminals.
</a> Navistar is trying to recover from a disastrous engineredesign that failed to meet environmental standards, wiped abillion dollars off its market capitalization and led to itsmanagement being replaced.
</a> Bihar's Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said the blasts "deserve strongest condemnation in strongest possible words as the perpetrators targeted the place of religious faith of people with an aim to create fear among them".
</a> Lead defense attorney Mark O'Mara says Zimmerman is concerned that even if he is acquitted, he would spend the rest of his life locked in the confines of his security regimen â hiding from the public and concealing his identity.
</a> Rare wildness from White Sox lefty John Danks enabled the Indians to tie it in their half. Bourn led off with a five-pitch walk. Swisher walked after four straight wide ones. Jason Kipnis executed a quality sacrifice bunt toward third that Gillaspie failed to pick up with the bare hand. Maver deemed the bunt good enough to score it a single.
</a> Transplant surgeon Niaz Ahmad, who carried out the operation, said that previously there was a cultural thing among surgeons about using donors so young, but due to the current organ shortage they were willing to do it.
</a> “The ECB should consider additional monetary support, through lower policy rates, forward guidance on future rates, negative deposit rates, or other unconventional policy measures. Since these factors reinforce each other, a vigorous response on all fronts offers the best way forward. In the absence of a comprehensive policy response, matters could easily worsen.”
</a> Those expectations were highly dubious from the get-go. Those setting the bar so low, as usual, ignored the fact that the NFL is a league of mediocrity where any team with a pulse and a prayer can get good, or at least good enough to stay in the playoff hunt, in a hurry. Few covering the league, especially the highly paid analysts who work for the NFLâs TV partners, will acknowledge this. It would damage the brand.
</a> Hill is carrying SB115, which would allow a man whose sperm was used to conceive a child through artificial insemination to ask a court for parental rights if he can show a certain level of involvement in the child's life.
</a> Council Member Jumaane Williams, a Brooklyn Democrat and the lead sponsor of both bills, lashed out at Mr. Bloomberg and NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly for "lying" to the public about the impact of these bills. Messrs. Bloomberg and Kelly have said the bills would ultimately endanger police officers' lives and cause crime to increase.
</a> Imports fared even better with a 10.9 percent jump from a year earlier, more than five times what analysts had forecast. The surprising strength in imports left China with a smaller-than-expected trade surplus of $17.8 billion.
</a> It is also sending strong signals to oil markets about itspricing policies should it make headway in the nuclear talkswith the West. The next round of talks with the U.N. nuclearagency is planned for next week.
</a> The America's Cup yachts are 72-foot catamarans, which by design are fast because they can sail with just one hull in the water for less resistance. But the New Zealand team was the first to perfect hydrofoiling, finding that the boats could be nudged to lift the hulls completely out of the water onto thin carbon-fiber blades. As they 'foil,' they appear to fly above the water - and their speed increases with reduced drag.
</a> Talks over compensation dragged on with no visible progress. As recently as last year, Verizon was offering to pay no more than $25 million in damages, while the city wanted $50 million, according to documents obtained by the Daily News.
</a> Williamson went over the wheel of a competitor during the first heat race and flipped in the first and second turn. He was airlifted to York Hospital, where he underwent surgery for internal injuries. For a time he was listed in critical condition before succumbing to his injuries Sunday evening.
</a> Allam believes those angry supporters will not allow Bradley to lead the team - and is looking at the possibility of assistant coach Diaa El Sayed taking charge of the return match on November 19, with Egypt's hopes of qualifying for the tournament in Brazil all but over.
</a> The issue, which hits newsstands Friday, features an picture of an unsmiling Tsarnaev above the bolded legend "The Bomber." The subhead promises to reveal "[h]ow a popular, promising student was failed by his family, fell into radical Islam, and became a monster."
</a> A prisoner dressed in drag managed to walk out of jail — only to be nabbed over his inability to walk in heels. Wearing a wig, blue dress and bright lipstick, Ronaldo Silva, 39, snuck past the guards and out of Penedo Prison in Brazil, London's The Sun reports. The convicted drug trafficker made it all the way to a bus station before he was nabbed by a cop who noticed the 'lady' wasn't so steady on her feet.
</a> U.S. Air Force General Philip Breedlove, who took over as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe in May, said many European NATO members bordering the Mediterranean were affected by what happened in North Africa.
</a> âIt was crazy because he had a little pill box, and he had his, sort of, little upper and his little downer and he thought he was taking his little upper... and we get along with the session, and he just comes over to me, and he whispers âI took the wrong pill.â [I said] âWhat did you take?â [He replied] âAcid.â [I said] âOK well, letâs work around that then.â
</a> According to Discovery News, Picker and his team created the vaccine by using a modified version of a common â though mostly harmless â virus called cytomegalovirus (CMV). When the CMV was exposed to the SIV, it prompted the monkeyâs white blood cells to respond and attack the SIV.
</a> "It bears the stench of history - the man's appalling anti-Semitism, which effectively gave cultural legitimization to Nazi policies, and the continuing cover-up of the involvement of the Wagner family with the Hitler regime, or the post-war reality that Bayreuth was essentially a summer camp for ex-Nazis and their widows."
</a> Its speciality food ingredients business saw volumes andsales rise faster than the wider market thanks to growth inEurope and emerging markets, which made up for a softerperformance in the U.S., it said. Overall, adjusted operatingprofit was in line with its expectations.
</a> In Japan, the die hard fans could be relied on to start queuing outside the company’s Tokyo flagship store one week before the new handsets go on sale, but on Wall Street Apple’s shares fell over five percent on Wednesday after a four percent decline on Tuesday.
</a> John Liu, while now struggling in the race for mayor, staged an unlikely victory for city controller four years ago by working with Lynch to reassemble the same kind of broad, diverse coalition that elected Dinkins.
</a> In the US, consumers will be able to download Windows 8.1 via Windows.com or purchase it in store as a packaged DVD. The standard Windows 8.1 will cost $119.99 (£75), while Windows 8.1 Pro will set you back $199.99 (£125), which is similar to the current pricing structure for Windows 8.
</a> Itâs an important reform â bad teachers should be let go. But a teacher who may have had a successful, two-decade-long teaching career deserves to leave the system with adequate retirement savings.
</a> Venezuelan traders owe the free trade zone about $1.2billion because of difficulties exchanging the Venezuelanbolivar for dollars. Meanwhile, Colombia has imposed additionalsurcharges on importing items such as clothes and shoes.
</a> Indeed, Truss and Gove inadvertently make the strongest case imaginable for our education system being taken out of the hands of the professional political class, with the extraordinary spectacle of their claiming to have more understanding of education and learning than a galaxy of the most eminent educational authorities from Britain and across the globe.
</a> The smog not only forced all primary and middle schools to suspend classes, but shut the airport and some public bus routes, the official Xinhua news agency reported, blaming the emergency on the first day of the heating being turned on in the city for winter. Visibility was reportedly reduced to 10 meters.
</a> To save the Sumatran rhinos, known to be direct descendants of the woolly rhinos from Ice Age, the zoo authorities got back Harapan to the Cincinnati Zoo. He was born there in 2007 but was shifted to White Oak Conservation Center, Florida, and later to Los Angeles Zoo. Harapan is one of the three Sumatran rhinos born under the successful captive breeding program.
</a> Most agree that the large, labor-intensive land wars in Iraq and Afghanistan represent an anomaly and that future US operations will rely more on power projection by the US Navy, Air Force and occasionally the Marines, which are part of the Navy.
</a> I actually feel kind of sad for her. He, however? Not in the slightest. GZ is just pulling these stupid stunts to make sure he remains chief enginner of the Fame Train, and keeps his name in the headlines.
</a> The Oscar-winning actress is immortalized in a $2,000 painting on paper towel by the 72-year-old Stamford, Conn., artist. He started using throwaway wipes as his medium because the paint colors stay âso vivid.â
</a> A pair trailers for âAnchorman 2: The Legend Continuesâ hit the internet with the force of a box of bowling balls slamming into an aquarium full of scorpions on board an out-of-control Winnebago.
</a> The important caveat is that original income level didn't appear to matter. For example: A doubling of wealth produces the same percent change in happiness whether that initial income was $1,000 or $1,000,000. Apparently, it's all relative.
</a> Until cops knocked on her door last week, Castillo had said her little girl had been taken away at age 4 by the abusive man who fathered her. She told cops she didnât know her daughter had been murdered.
</a> Some have suggested the âHard Knocksâ resolution had something to do with an NFL money grab. Wrong. HBO pays NFL Films only a modest license fee to do the show. The league â or HBO â canât even sell âHard Knocksâ merchandise. Someone trademarked the name many moons ago.
</a> Rich said he was impressed with the apparent ability of thehigher dose of the drug to increase cardiac output, or thevolume of blood pumped by the heart per minute. (Reporting by Toni Clarke in Washington; Editing by JohnWallace, Gerald E. McCormick and Andrew Hay)
</a> He is definitely looking better than he has in a long time. What’s up with JJ emphasizing that he “carried his own bag”?? I wonder if his camp gave them flack for the thread where it showed Amy hauling everything. How funny!!
</a> Even if TEPCO's record were unblemished, the sheer quantity of radioactive water it has to contain is scary enough. There are roughly 300 potentially leaky tanks at Fukushima, holding enough highly radioactive water to cover 37 football fields. Some of the water probably has already leaked into the Pacific.
</a> If the campaign groups are successful with their case, the Courtwill have to offer some kind of guidance to a statutory regime thatwould balance the right to privacy with the need to carry outsecret surveillance. "The court formally would declare that RIPAand the activities of GCHQ have breached the right to privacy andthe UK Government would need to come up with a legislative regimewhich does comply with those standards."
</a> However, as a thank you for our being too tired, jaded, and entertained by horrible people to have principles, CBS needs to consider these five potential reality and competition shows to make it up to us, all of which I think we can agree we would watch the hell out of.
</a> "Even at this time of loss and grief, we, and Hannah's family, take comfort in the knowledge that the efforts of her physicians and the care team working with them will benefit and serve other children and adults in the years to come."
</a> On this week's Daily News Fifth Yankees Podcast, Mark Feinsand is joined by WFAN's Sweeny Murti during the final day of the season at Yankee Stadium as they talk about Mariano Rivera's emotional Bronx farewell.
</a> Central Asia's largest economy and the second-largest oilproducer in the former Soviet Union after Russia, Kazakhstanplans to boost oil output to 82 million tonnes this year from79.2 million in 2012.
</a> As for now, Chipotle has identified several of its menu itemsâfrom tortilla chips to chicken cooked in soybean oilâas containing genetically modified organisms. Given the companyâs preference for using organic, and locally produced ingredients, some customers were caught off-guard by the disclosure.
</a> The middle-to-higher earners in between are those who will be hardest-hit. Intergenerational Foundation (IF), an independent think tank, produced a major piece of work last month comparing the outcomes for a range of students whose postgraduate earnings followed different scenarios.
</a> Shares of Pfizer, the largest U.S. drugmaker, rose0.8 percent to $29.77 and helped support the S&P 500 after thecompany reported results. Pfizer's second-quarter earningsslightly exceeded estimates as the company lined up a businesssplit that could lead to the spinoff of its generics division.
</a> Scientists make every effort to predict which flu strains will dominate each season and to prepare the vaccine accordingly, but "we're not good at all at anticipating what may be the next pandemic," he said.
</a> "The phone call this April ended the mystery. He left a message on a Sunday, saying, 'I have something important to talk about—please call me back.' I was working and called the next morning. He uttered an eerily familiar phrase: 'You may want to sit down.' Then he said, 'Carolyn, I'm gay.' I was stunned. I managed to say, after a silent moment and then a deep breath, 'I had no idea. I'm sure a huge weight is off your shoulders.' During all the years I had known him, I never would have guessed that he would come out as gay," Moos said.
</a> Bettie Town never missed being out on the moors on August 12, shooting grouse over English Setters. A formidable character, she had a very sharp mind and a remarkable memory. She loved the company of young people.
</a> PARIS, Sept 25 (Reuters) - European shares dipped early onWednesday as nagging concerns over a potential U.S. governmentshutdown at the end of the month and uncertainty about theoutlook for the Federal Reserve's stimulus programme keptinvestors on edge.
</a> Benchmark crude for August delivery was down 54 cents at $105.46 at early afternoon Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 32 cents to finish Tuesday at $106 a barrel.
</a> "This has been a technical pullback (in stocks), and withthe 10-year yield near 3 percent we are pretty close toreversing it," said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist atRockwell Global Capital in New York.
</a> The batteries for the X5 eDrive are mounted beneath the car's boot floor, meaning practicality is virtually unaffected. As a result, the plug-in X5 should offer a generous 650 litres of boot space, expanding to 1,870 litres with the rear seats folded flat. These batteries will also allow the X5 eDrive to travel up to 19 miles on electric power alone.
</a> Alexander Gunz, manager of the Helicon Fund at HeptagonCapital, is another fan of family firms, citing typically lowerdebt levels, their preference for conservative expansion andaccounting policies and longer-term strategic decision-making.
</a> "Purchase decisions don't just depend on the unemployment number," Kuckartz said. "It depends on the person's situation and the entire political and news media environment. The key factors in our experience are disposable income and the general outlook for the future. "
</a> At least 8 arrests were made for failure to disperse as streets were cleared and order restored after about two hours, police said. Arrests were made for disturbing the peace, unlawful assembly and inciting a riot. One person was held for assault with a deadly weapon on an officer. Police will look at video, and more arrests could be made.
</a> It did suggest, however, that while “the traditional travel agent is no longer necessary... specialised travel agents still exist to tackle unusual or exotic requests, usually from wealthy clients. They've created a niche that has turned a useless job into a profitable one.”
</a> The lies delayed the litigation in federal court, denied the abuse victims the chance of getting access to Sheridan's investigative notes before he destroyed them and cost them a lot of extra money in legal fees.
</a> UFT President Michael Mulgrew envisioned the dawn of a new era in which a beefed-up cadre of arbitrators would speedily render judgment on Department of Education charges. No more would hundreds while away years doing nothing.
</a> Other outstanding differences include the issue ofunilateral U.S. military operations which have long infuriatedKarzai. He has said they violate Afghan sovereignty, previousagreements and inflict terrible casualties on civilians.
</a> The actor had checked into Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel on July 6 and was scheduled to check out Saturday, according to police. When he did not check-out, staff went to his hotel room at noon and discovered his body.
</a> Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which wouldbe wound down in five years under the proposed bill, buymortgages from lenders and repackage them into MBS for investorswhich they issue with a guarantee. They were seized by thegovernment in 2008 during the financial crisis as they teeteredon the brink of collapse under the weight of souring loans.
</a> The military junta led by Al-Sisi must go. It was foolish of them to carry out a coup. Within weeks they have killed more than 300 civilians, imprisoned scores of political opponents on trumped up charges and suppressing peaceful protests. USA needs to take a very strong action and get this tyrant leave power, by Force if necessary. Obama should give MaCain full mandate to resolve the Egypt mess, it is a huge embarrassment to have Mubarak type of fellow ,or even worse ,back in charge in Egypt.
</a> On foreign and defence policy, the report noted the balance of powers lay squarely with the member states with all significant decisions requiring unanimous voting, although it noted “tensions” in how EU foreign policy was developed.
</a> Then there was the injury news. Another of Mattinglyâs Friday decisions was to start the injured Andre Ethier in center field for the first time since Sept. 13. Ethierâs shin splints did not respond well to 13 innings of pressure, and he was out of the lineup on Saturday.
</a> If PG Wodehouse's unflappable valet Jeeves had been called upon to work in the Arabian peninsula, you can be sure he would have been perfectly at home - Mayfair, Abu Dhabi⦠it's all the same if you're a professional with a job to do, a rigid dress code to uphold, and a gentleman to protect from overbearing aunts.
</a> So it was an abysmal attack before Wilson hurt his neck, and now the Giants will turn - at least at first - to Jacobs, their new starter, whom they rescued from the NFL scrap heap less than a month ago. He had just five carries for seven yards during his miserable exile in San Francisco last season and just 11 yards on 11 carries in his first three games with the Giants before exploding for 37 yards on 11 carries after Wilson got hurt on Sunday afternoon.
</a> A disabled junk dealer feuding with local officials over his debris-strewn property packed a rental car with guns and ammunition before opening fire at a town meeting and killing three men, authorities said Tuesday.
</a> The violence is a sobering reminder for potential investors. Miners and other companies such as food processor Del Monte Pacific Limited had said they were considering expanding after the MILF peace deal.
</a> The Senate purchased the clock in 1815, and it has stood in or near the Senate chamber ever since. It currently resides in what is called the Ohio Clock Corridor, the site of many Capitol Hill news conferences.
</a> Any review risks making the movie sound like an ostentatious solo routine, but it's got hidden depth in the supporting cast, which finds wiggle room for underrated character actors (O'Hare, Dallas Roberts), gives Garner her best role since Juno, and performs a kind of resuscitating miracle on the career of Jared Leto. As Rayon, an afflicted drag queen who attempts to befriend a highly dubious Ron in hospital, he's shouldering an even flashier part than McConaughey's, and does the work of his life. Rayon's a bitchy flirt who's petulantly unready to cash in his chips, but Leto somehow resists every tragic-sidekick cliché that comes within reach. It's one thing being impressed by his aptitude for drag – he could be Courtenay Cox's even thinner younger sister – but quite another being this moved.
</a> "They involve dozens or even hundreds of people huddled over computer terminals all over the world in a common purpose of stealing of disseminating credit card numbers," said Rasch, who was not involved in bringing the case.
</a> The anti-Morsi camp has also called for huge rallies after weekly Friday prayers, in Tahrir Square and at the Itihadiya presidential palace, with a mass iftar – the breaking of the Muslim fast – planned at sundown in the central plaza.
</a> In the first study to test the device in patients, the iKnife diagnosed tissue samples from 91 patients with 100 percent accuracy, researchers at Imperial College London reported in Science Translational Medicine on Wednesday.
</a> If the Saints wind up returning to playoff contention in 2013, they'll be able to point to the preseason as the first signs of progress upon coach Sean Payton's return from the bounty suspension that banished him from the league in 2012
</a> Of J.P. Morgan's other Treasuries clients, 15 percent said they were "long" in their duration on U.S. government debt, or owned more longer-dated Treasuries than their benchmarks, down from 17 percent last week.
</a> The two things "are very loosely connected," said New York Fed President William Dudley. "The amount of time that can pass between the decision to begin to taper and actually raising short-term interest rates could easily be a number of years."
</a> She is also widely expected to cut back the industryexemptions once she has formed a government. She is currentlyseeking a coalition partner after her conservatives emerged asthe dominant force in an election on Sept. 22.
</a> They beat the friend into submission, held down the woman and repeatedly raped her. They also penetrated the woman repeatedly with an iron rod, causing severe internal injuries that led to her death two weeks later. As a rape victim, the woman cannot be identified under Indian law.
</a> Former world number one Rory McIlroy was tight-lipped on Tuesday about reports he has split from long-term partner Caroline Wozniacki and said he was looking forward to getting back on the golf course.
</a> "Based on these enhanced standards, we have re-examined recent reports of graphic content and have concluded that this content improperly and irresponsibly glorifies violence. For this reason, we have removed it."
</a> Justice Department officials said investigators were able to identify Mr. Sachtleben as a suspect in the disclosure case only after agents compared his telephone records with those of the news reporter who broke the story.
</a> Under terms of the deal, Oi will sell up to $3.1 billion innew stock and use proceeds to cut debt. Portugal Telecom will inturn contribute its assets, excluding its stake in Oi, and own38 percent of CorpCo. Oi will have as much as 30 percent of thenew company and other investors such as investment bank GrupoBTG Pactual SA and a number of Brazilian pensionfunds will own the rest.
</a> Democrats argue limits on ammunition magazines and expanded background checks will improve public safety and are an appropriate response to the massacres at the Aurora movie theater last July and at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in December.
</a> Dow, the largest U.S. chemical maker by sales, reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Thursday due to strong margins in its plastics business and higher sales of pesticides to farmers. Its shares rose 1.5 percent in morning trading.
</a> Prepare to get shell-shucked during the 11th annual Grand Central Oyster Frenzy. Seafoodies can sample 16 kinds of crustaceans with oysters from the East and West coasts, or join a slurp-off competitive eating contest. Enjoy free tastings, wine pairings and demos from oyster gurus like Oceana executive chef Ben Pollinger. Sep. 28., noon-5 p.m. Free. Grand Central Terminalâs Lower Level, 89 E. 42nd St., at Park Ave. (212) 490-6650.
</a> The Wales Audit Office reported today that health bodies in Wales worked hard to break even in 2012/13 on revenue of £6.1bn. There had been an improvement against efficiency targets, with patients spending less time in hospital. Shorter stays freed up staff and beds to treat other patients or to achieve cash savings.
</a> The Netherlands' Pieter Weening, of Orica Greenedge, was the overall winner after a superb time trial. He was 27 seconds behind leader Christophe Riblon before the start of the final stage but overhauled that deficit to win by 13 seconds.
</a> Goosebumps remained as Rivera finished his warmup. He carved through another 1-2-3 inning. Brewers shortstop Jean Segura, 23, came to bat first and grounded out. “He only throws one pitch,” Segura said. “Everybody knows it’s that pitch coming.”
</a> The government then asked Omen consortium, the reservedbidder, who offered to pay $959 million after the preferredbidder missed several payment deadlines. This was the attemptthat came closest to selling the ailing telecom firm, but Omendid not provide the necessary deposit.
</a> Acutely conscious of the media's interest in his love life and eager to prevent his girlfriend from being hounded by photographers like his late mother, Wills and Kate kept their relationship low-key, confiding in only a handful of trusted friends. They never left their university home together, arrived at social events separately and did not hold hands in public. Future Queen Catherine, Kate Middleton is pictured here in 2006 at age 24.
</a> Syria will appoint a point person within the Syrian government for chemical weapons and must have completed by November 1 the destruction of all chemical weapon production and mixing/filling facilities, the decision states.
</a> "This is where we draw the line. Oil companies are standing on the doorstep of one of the world's most precious and fragile places, but we will not rest until Virunga is safe from this potential environmental disaster," said Lasse Gustavsson, executive director of WWF International. "Virunga has snow fields and lava fields, but it should not have oil fields."
</a> With just 3.05 trillion won of revenue, Samsung Everlandserves as the de facto holding company for the Samsung Group asit stays at the top of Samsung Group's complicated crossshareholding structure.
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тренд на Здоровый образ жизни появился после премьеры кинокартины "Под водой".
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В 2018 году Россия принимала гостей со всего мира на
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Страна развивается, а люди стремиться улучшить
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к спорту в денежными поощрениями.
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</a> With eight statuettes, HBO's Liberace biopic "Behind the Candelabra" was the night's top-winning individual program at the ceremony honoring technical and other achievements. The movie will compete for seven more nominations at next Sunday's Primetime Emmy Awards.
</a> Moments after Brian Cashmanâs âbig, hairy monster,â Travis Hafner, had one of the biggest trips to the plate of his short Yankee career, a four-pitch walk in the ninth that tied the game at 2, Wells drilled a sharp single to left with the infield in that drove in Brett Gardner with the winning run. The wild on-field celebration capped the night for Nova â who was spelling the injured Hiroki Kuroda in the rotation. Nova said he was dreading having to come away from such a strong effort with nothing to show for it but a loss. Instead, the Dominican righthander may have earned his way back into the rotation since David Phelps has struggled.
</a> Holmes might not need the practice in training camp that younger players would, but "week-to-week" probably starts to eat into the regular season. After all, the Jets take on the Bucs and Darrelle Revis in under four weeks. Realistically, given the stage Holmes is at now, it seems unlikely that the receiver would be ready for that game. Rex Ryan, however, wouldn't rule it out.
</a> IBM is entrenched in corporations across the globe; and withone of the industry's biggest research budgets, is likely toremain so for some time. But it and other players like Oracle are taking note of AWS as cloud computing takes off.
</a> The U.S. is the only country in the world (beside Eritrea) to tax based on citizenship vs. residency, making FATCA particularly harmful to the 6-7 million U.S. citizens/green card holders living overseas.
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</a> The Republican-controlled House followed up the administration's decision by voting on July 17 for its own measures to delay the employer and individual mandates. Neither piece of legislation is expected to succeed in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
</a> Lori Windham, senior counsel for the Becket Fund, said in an interview that Heaton's decision "shows that companies can be protected from the mandate, and continue to exercise their religious beliefs in the way they run their businesses."
</a> The 2013 MLB All-Star FanFest at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center held fun family events and, according to a lawsuit filed by a volunteer seeking wages, is said to have generated $191.5 million for the New York economy.
</a> The prospects of a global settlement of the civil litigation by all parties seems remote. The judge in charge of it, Carl Barbier, has not yet ruled on the question of whether BP or its co-defendants were guilty of gross negligence.
</a> The researchers discovered that howling was influenced considerably more by close social relationships than by stress, up-ending some previous beliefs that the animals howl as a result of anxiety.
</a> "I should have worked more aggressively inside the system ... Unfortunately, I can't go back and change things," Manning, wearing his dress uniform and glasses, his hair in a crew cut, said from the witness stand.
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</a> The budget revelations are part of mounting information on the size and scope of the US intelligence community since Edward Snowden leaked secret documents to the Washington Post and Guardian newspapers.
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</a> Also wrapped up in the stalemate over government funding is the State Department’s increased request for $2.2 billion in security funds for the next fiscal year, another recommendation by the Accountability Review Board and a step the department has touted.
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</a> Raytheon Co is poised to book billions of dollarsworth of orders for its Patriot air and missile defense systemin the coming months, underscoring the resurgence of a weaponfirst developed to defend Europe against a possible Sovietattack.
</a> Time to recap where we are. A cross-party deal has been put together by the US Senate that would lift the debt ceiling and reopen those parts of the government that have been shut due to this prolonged budget dispute.
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</a> West Group in Stavanger also aims to reduce drilling time byup to 50 percent through developing the first continuous motionrig, which adds new lengths of pipe as the drill moves deeper,without having to stop drilling.
</a> In Rabaa al-Adawia, at a press conference late on Saturday the Muslim Brotherhood called on the international community to condemn the bloodshed that had taken place and 'indict' Gen. Sisi for "war crimes".
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</a> For Tuesday's hearing, the men walked under police escort from a bus into the high court complex. Three had their faces uncovered in public for the first time since the crime, while one wore a handkerchief tied over his nose and mouth.
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</a> A former Karzai political adviser, Nasrullah Stanikzai, said the Afghan government must pursue its own strategic and political interests in negotiations with the United States, but tense relations between Obama and Karzai were not helping.
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</a> Chinese factories have sent mixed signals on the extent oftheir latest rebound. A separate manufacturing PMI issued byHSBC on Monday showed manufacturing grew less than expected lastmonth on soft domestic demand.
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